Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You wrote: >I don't think so. The German look, for all the razzing it gets, costs a lot >of money. And any manufacturer can make quality goods, they just have to >want to. That's one reason the CL didn't go over well with Minolta, when it >was the Lecia version. Because they couldn't make it up to Leica's "specs" >and make what they thought was a good profit on it. There were too many >rejects. And that's one reason Minolta's 24mm lens, transformed into a Leica >lens costs so much more. > >========================== >Eric Welch >Grants Pass Daily Courier > > One thing I forget to say in my original post was that around 50-60% of these lenses are rejected.